Mya

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Initialism of million years ago

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/majə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 86K
  • SNSenegal≈1 in 9.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

51,028 people, 2020

Sources
340 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Initialism of million years ago.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—51,0281 in 6.5K51KMya340
FR France—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 30K14K—5
MY Malaysia—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 19K—Mya27
SN Senegal#962≈1,700 est.≈1 in 9.3K—Mya7
GB United Kingdom—≈770 est.≈1 in 86K22Mya137
SG Singapore—≈270 est.≈1 in 23K—Mya27
GY Guyana—331 in 23K33Mya2

51,028 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mya is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Mexico

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written M'Ya, Myá, Myä, Mÿa, Mÿà

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Myạ

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Singapore

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mÿá

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Esmeralda

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Japanese, The hiragana syllable みゃ (mya) or the katakana syllable ミャ (mya) in Hepburn romanization.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, abbreviation of milltir yn awr

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, a kind of mussel

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kac, emerald

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19701980199020002010Mýa, b. 1979Mya Bollaers, b. 1996Mya Breitbart, b. 2000Mya Jones, b. 2001Mya Harnish, b. 2001Mya Lesnar, b. 2002Mya Bates, b. 2005Mya de Freitas, b. 2005

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Mya,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 74 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Mya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202051K#889
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202414K#53
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025697—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020279#889
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202533#561
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)202422#184
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)202511#161
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20136—

Reference works 2

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Mya?
A machine transcription gives /majə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Mya a male or female name?
Mya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Mya have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Mya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mya.
Where is Mya most common?
Mya is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Mya mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of million years ago. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Mya?
In the etymology graph, Maya, Gya and Tya are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Mya?
In the United States, the national register counted 51,028 people named Mya in 2020, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
How common is Mya compared with other names?
In Senegal, Mya is the 962nd most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mya” — the 962nd most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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